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Skryim has Werewolves... and Cannibals

Bethesda's lawyers must be very busy this weekend. Over the past couple of days, two separate gameplay videos of Skyrim have emerged, both of which seemingly confirm the existence of werewolves in the upcoming Elder Scrolls game. While these videos have been multiplying like a virus across youtube, Bethesda's lawyers have been just as quick in getting each and every video taken down within hours. Click below to (hopefully) see a werewolf video before it too gets blocked!

Of course, it goes without saying that these videos contain spoilers. The first video shows a quest where another character transforms into a werewolf:

There is also a low-quality video purporting to show a playable character running around as a werewolf and causing all manner of mayhem:

By the time you read this, the above videos will probably have been deleted, such is the wrath of Bethesda's legal army of online suits. So here are some screenshots instead, depicting the werewolf quest:

In case you're new to the whole "are there werewolves in Skyrim?" debate, it appears from the above leaks that there are, but so far we don't know if these hairy creatures will be in the main game or will only be part of extra DLC content. The latest word on this is from Bethesda's Pete Hines via a tweet, in which he says "I haven't said a word one way or the other and will continue to do so".

However, another morally-ambivalent aspect of the game is definitely confirmed: Skyrim will feature some sort of a cannibalism quest. We know this thanks to the British Board of Film Classification, which made the following statement when classifying the game for UK audiences:

"[Skyrim contains] a section where you make the choice whether to join a group of cannibals in eating human flesh (although no detail of the activity itself is shown)."

Spy Guy says: I think we can safely assume that werewolves, just like vampires, are going to play a role in Skyrim. Just how much of a role, and how playable they will be, is something we'll just have to wait to find out. Not long now!